C. Ruth Daly
YA Horror and Ghosts
Adult Fiction: Murder, Mystery, Adventure
About the Books
I grew up across the street from Hall House, an abandoned grey house with dark windows and swaying maple trees that cast shadows over its front at dusk. Every night I peered out the window at Hall House and quickly drew the blind for fear of what dwelt inside would come out, creep into my bedroom and ...
The Burgenton books are murder mystery stories full of adventure and humor. The stories are set in a
small fictional town in Indiana where ordinary lives turn out to be not so ordinary.
Rivers are in all three books symbolizing power, history, or continuity in lives.
Readers say the books are page turners and have to be finished to discover what happens next!
Enter Hall House
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Eva thinks Hall House is on the other side of town, but her compassion for animals causes her to follow a kitty into the town’s dreaded home. The familiar lures the girl inside and into the unyielding grasp of the Halls. The ghosts enslave her as they have done to the children of Helspha throughout the years. Eva meets other imprisoned children, good and evil spirits, fantastical beings from worlds beyond her own, and she develops unlikely friendships. Will she succeed in her battle against entities to escape — or will the Halls continue to control her and the other children and make them like themselves—spirits entombed in the House of Hall.
The Burgenton Files
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Donna McNally returns to Burgenton, Indiana to be honored for an event she wants to forget. Murders and mysteries surrounding the secret Confederate gold continue to haunt her as she travels back in time and recounts the year in which her quiet, small town life is disrupted by a series of murders and the lives of everyday people are turned upside down. Donna and her friends unravel the mysteries and learn everyone in their small town is not who they think they are.
The River Waits for Murder
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A summer at Trevor’s posh river resort turns to chaos as murders arise in Camden County and greedy tourists sneak into town in search of the treasured Confederate gold. Donna McNally finds herself in the thick of it all as she and her friends help solve the crimes and in turn make sense of the tragedies that disrupt their lives.
The second book in The Burgenton Files series finds twenty-eight-year-old Donna and her friend Evan Miles leaving Arizona and returning to Indiana. Life does not quite pick up where they left off four years earlier as they discover friends change, people come and go, yet the town itself remains the same.
What's next? The second book in the Hall House series. Find out what happens when Eva returns to Hall House.
Book covers by Elijah Toten